Mansfield Park论文.doc

Mansfield Park论文 摘要：this paper makes an analysis on “mansfield park” by jane austen, a remarkable english woman novelist. it reviews the main story of the novel and expounds on the characterization and some features of the novel, such as the keynote, dialogues and style. base on the above analysis, the paper points out the novel is more serious than other works and shows clearly austen’s firm belief in the predominance of reason over passion and her preference for kindness, honesty and responsibility. 关键词：mansfield park；characterization；keynote；style 1.introduction jane austen is a gifted and remarkable english woman novelist, ranked among the truly great english realists headed by dickens and thackery. her novels, for which stories of love and marriage provide the framework, show the concern about human beings in their personal relations with families and neighbors. generally speaking, her novels are noted for delightfulness, fun, humor, wit and sentimentalism, although “mansfield park” has a serious note. the novel “mansfield park” mainly tells of the eternal triangle among mild-tempered and virtuous fanny price, beautiful but superficial miss mary crawford, and fanny’s cousin edmund bertram, a kind-hearted and responsible young man, and how the friendship between fanny and edmund develops into love. 2.characterization 2.1fanny’s image fanny, the heroine, is a shy, modest, sensitive, sweet-tempered, and virtuous girl, but not in good health. she is neither attractive nor disgusting, but she still has such good elements as graceful air, sweet voice, pretty countenance and the most important, virtue. although her aunt mrs. norris is always particular about her behaviors, she tolerates the arrogance and contempt.. fanny, on the other hand, is rational and moral. when these young people decide to perform “lovers’ vows” which may do harm to the reputation of mansfield park, only she and edmund object to it. later, she is almost forced by them to take part in the rehear